black like a...

trash bin bag? hahaha, but indeed, this design was inspired by the black plastic bag that we usually use it for rubbish bin..



Last week my friend and i participated in a costume design competition held by Public Relation student in uni for their final year project. it was to create a costume with the use using old stuff or recyclable materials. So this was the final result using bubble wrap, unused shirt, and black plastic bag..



And to make it a set, the rubbish bag came to my mind as an idea to transform it onto my nails..
But instead of using the real bag, i tried it out with my black crack polish i bought sometime ago.. (check this out for the 1st crack nail design i did with red crack polish)


And, this is the outcome..
Yes the surface was not smooth as expected but it instead it came out looking more realistic like the texture of the rubbish bag.. :p
The base color was actually silver glitter and i added some flakes too before the black polish so when the cracks form you can see some shine coming out in between the crack..



For left hand side i make index finger with silver glitter cause i think it gives a contrast with the black crack design and to bling it up a bit..


Hope you like it~
If not, stay tune cause next will be a long-time-no Konad post~~~~!!! ^^

Rachel'graphy + my bare nails once more^^

Okay okay, no new nails at the moment as i'm letting them away to rest and breath freely as they are very thin and fragile due to my 'rudeness' treat to them when removing acrylic or gel or nail glue. :p (i often put much pressure trying to remove them when nail remover is not strong enough to take off in short time, i'm not patient when it comes to revoming, haha)


To fill up your time spent here, here's some of my artwork practicing my photography skills on free time, hope you like it.. :)

I love chocolate but i dont crave for it often unless you got dark chocolate~~!!! @v@
So when Ferrero Rondnoir dark chocolate is here in supermarket, i must try it! hehehe..
It's not bad though~


practicing using the lens flare...






And this was a Canon camera i snap when i'm at my friend's house..

the original..

after editing on contrast and others which i can't remember..


and shall we play with some effect... :)





You read my title about bare nails, and yes it's been long long time since i post my naked babies..

i have the habit to clean my dead skin on cuticle area whenever i saw them, i just have the craziness on clean and clear lines on cuticle lines, they make them look unreal and neat. hehe..


my left hand~

and right side...
The weather was nice so you couldn't see much of the 'wound' on my nails. The white part of my nails is normally kinda transparent since small, but after some layers are been teared off by yours truly, it's even transparent now.. :p


close up..
My left thumbnails broke a bit so i file it round to keep the length..

See what i mean by clean and clear cuticle lines? hehehe...


Enough for 'showing off' my poor babies, shall see you next with sneak a peek poo~ ^^

I'm back~ ^^

I'm back, i'm back i'm back i'm back~~~ @v@

How's the new layout and header? hehe, thought to have a change after so long..

Well, no nails for today yet, maybe until i have enough rest replacement from work, haha..

I removed my gel nails, they stay on nails not even a month, think will not go to that nail salon for the moment, as i don't see any reason to return if they still do not consider from customer side. ><

-i actually requested for acrylic nails since i've tried gel before, but the ladies keep on pushing me to go for gel, i know it's nicer and it's the trend over here, but i can sense that it's mostly because they don't want to smell the strong liquid thingy. (Or maybe they dont have the skill? lolx)

-they have pink powder majority, which the rest are like purple and some weird green and yellow one. NOT even pale pink, nude or beige as what i asked for. #$%^& The salon seems to be quite popular in the mall, but only with these few colors to survive for little girls that only like pink? T.T

-they kinda success to CHANGE my mind to give gel nail one more try, but we had some time on the length. rrgghh.. i SAID i need to do typing quite a lot, but she still refuse to shorter the extension, saying that she already use to do long nails, and short one are not pretty enough. T.T so i file them down after i got back home. rggggggh.. But still, i'm not able to file it too short as it's really thick from the c-curve view, had hard time to pick up coins or even paper. End up almost whole office can hear me typing with the nails, annoying to me and my colleague.

-Last and for most. another reason i wanted acrylic is because after the gel stays on your nails for some time, there will be some gap/air in between the gel and real nails as you do your daily work and due to the different thickness of gel on nail bed and the corner. the lady guarantee to me it will not happen, but it happens right after that, haha... then she giving excuse then the corner (near cuticle) is too thin cause she file it too much. End my love for gel nail.

ok i think it's about it. haih...

By the way, the gradient is quite nice though..

Dah, hand itchy edit photos immediately though i say no photo today, haha...

The actual length she extend for me..

Oh and she's rude to my nails!!!!!!!!!

she trim them badly hurtfully and they look awful before hiding with gel layer on top. There is standard steps to cut off nails which i know it from beauty show, i assume that professional nail salon practice that too, but i guess i'm wrong (cause they expect me to go back for 'refill' the gel after 2-3 weeks, so they can continue to hide it, lolx).

My 10 finger nails are like some with square shape here some round there, rrgghhhh..

This is how it looks like after 1+ week.. My nails grow fast..

Only manage to file till this length cause i can't stand the thickness.. ><

And see..... the crack on my middle finger..

That continue to happen on the rest of my nails and it never ends... T.T

Enough of complaining, talking typing makes me hungry faster, food here i come~

Till next time.. :)

Prosperity marble + the rain and cloud~

I've been spending my time being with family and friends for CNY, and that's the reason for not updating too.. :p

This is what i'm wearing on third day of CNY and i'm quite satisfied on the result and make them stay longer on my nails, hehe..

To achieve the mani, i start the base with a dark red..

*you'll probably wondering whose hand is that at the back, hehe, answer will be revealed in a short while~

When it's dried, drop few big drop of the same red and gold polish onto nails,

'mix' it all up by using orange stick or dotting tools,

i'm not doing any pattern but just mixing it randomly..

Then i accessories the mani with some rhinestones on ring finger..

Photo taken in dad's friend house with their sewing picture.. :p

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Done for my part, here comes sharing mani i did for my cute sister~ ^^v

Start off with 2 coats of dark blue polish..

Next, create random dots with white polish near the cuticle part, and here appear the 'cloud'~

Finish it by adding some black star stones onto the cloud.. (i only have 1 color of star stones, it would look better with other color maybe..)

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And before i say bye bye, i thought i could share about stones over here..

As you can see from the picture above, left hand side are cheappie stones with only 1 thin silver layer at the back of stones; while the right hand cost a little bit higher than the cheap one, with thicker and more secure layer at behind, allowing it to be reuse for few times..

The more expensive stones definitely looks more 'pure' and shines compare to the cheat one..

*i'm damm sleepy while i'm writing these, thus apologies for wrong grammar or wring info in sentence if any, hehe.. @.@

I was holding one of our souvenir from Taiwan, representing 101mall..

Ok i should be oging to bed now, night~ :)

Keep your eyes on my CNY nails~

Deng deng deng~~

lolx.. This is what i had on my nails on the first day of Chinese/Lunar New Year (初一)~ ^^

It kinda look like nails for christmas or marine though, haha..

cause i just can't keep my mind away from Wan's mani in her i love nail polish, so i though i could make something like that with red and white since it's suitable for CNY, tehee...

Talking about rhinestones, here's a picture showing the outcome from using cheap rhinestones.. lolx... Haih, gimme more red pocket/envelope so i can get more good shining stones~~~~~

Tehee, i made this using empty ang pao (red envelope) for house decoration. Googled a more complicated one but mummy didn't have enough 'budget' of ang pao for me so i come out with this idea~ ^^v

This is all i got~ ^^

Well, it's not that complete in types of color, nor in glitter, but these are mine, mine mine mine~~
This is also the first time i arrange all my polishes in sequence and only i know i got so much different tones of colors.. :p


Warm colors~



The purple~ which is actually only 3, haha..
Cause it's not my fav color..



The red~~~ ^^ love those dark one that match well with my skin tone..



The cold color~
Sorry about the messy background, haha..
It's my dining table..



The gold and bronze group~



And the green and turquoise..



The blue to black~






And the beige and pink..



The glitters~



Only have 2 thin tips brush polish, got a silver one but it dried up so throw it away..



The bright one..
white, white, yellow, neon orange and orange orange~ haha...



clear polish with glitters..




Nothing can be done without these babies -- Nail nutrient coat, base coat and top coat~



Accessories~





Well, i haven't figure out any good idea to use these, haha...



Konad~~ ^^



m2, m3, m7
i'm too lazy to capture each plate, so you go to Konad website and check them out.. lolx..



m39, m53, m57



m59, m71



My roses and rhinestones~~ \^^/


Ok now i've finally arrange all in colors, and i feel release, dunno why.. XP
before this i use to arrange them by brand and just feel like something's missing..
So now i can go ahead and type my nail creation one.. tehee..^^/